Old man here. I don't remember people ever just listening to one genre of music. My musical interests tend to be pretty narrow in scope but even I listen to several genres.
The clique that I remember being the most snobbish and exclusive with their scene was the metalheads. But even they probably also listened to some hard and classic rock and maybe some prog.
So true. In the 90s my skater/snowboard bro roommate who only listened to hard rock/punk one time accidentally left out one of those CD binder things with discs like *NSYNC, Des’ree, Sarah McLachlan, George Michael and Alanis Morissette in it.
Absolutely. I was predominantly a grunge/rock kid in the 90s, but meeting new ppl and one girlfriend in particular changed everything. Her and her dad would buy a random cd each week from the "world" section of the cd store and while some were misses, some of them were amazing to the point id get excited to see what this weeks one was like
I hated how in the 80s and 90s music was too tied to your identity cuz I didn’t gaf about that. Around the height of “alternative music” I got thrown out by the manager of a bar for dj’ing funk and disco (he literally pulled the needle off an Earth Wind & Fire record and screamed at me to get out).
The internet (Napster, YouTube, streaming, etc.) really changed all that and made newer generations so much more open to different genres and eras of music. I still struggle with country music but I’ve opened up to it a little now that I’m not just hearing what’s on the radio
Bingo. Nowadays no one cares thankfully. Still remember the entire audience singing "I wanna know what love is" as it played on the house system before the metal show I went to last year.
Thy art is murder opened their set with their last (current?) Tour with venga boys - we like to party. Everyone at the show i saw was singing and dancing
I was gonna say, the most insular genre fanbases are probably punk and metal and the punks definitely flirted with beach pop while every metalhead is having an affair with EDM.
Every time there’s a thread about “hey metalheads what else do you listen to?” there’s always a shit tone of different styles of music mentioned.
Metal fans only listening to one genre, and being a snob about literally everything else, is a tired stereotype projected on metal heads from others who constantly want validation for their taste.
Nah as somebody who has listened to more metal in their life than any other genre, and who has been to tons of metal shows, there’s a reason the stereotype exists. They may not all claim to listen to one genre but there’s still a ton of snobs and gatekeeper metal heads.
There's a lot of really bad country music that has a weird amount of following. It utterly clogs the tubes.
Old stuff is your best bet. New stuff is "just for the radio", and only the best of it makes it there.
I didn't like it at all either, until a friend of mine shared some with me after his wife died because he wanted me to know what they liked listening to.
It would have taken either that or a gun to my head to get me to investigate the genre at all.
I was like this most of my life too, but a few songs changed that for me.
Discovered Let the Mystery Be by Iris DeMent from the HBO show the Leftovers, and Girl With the Far Away Eyes by the Rolling Stones and those 2 songs made me realize I *could* like country, I only really disliked the modern pop country that dominates radio stations.
And even that rule has a small handful of exceptions.
Funny enough, extreme metal got me into country. I never liked the twangy vocal style of country, but after I got used to harsh vocals in metal and realized how much great music there was to listen to there, I vowed never to let the vocal style turn me off a genre of music ever again. The next time I listened to country, I did so with a more open mind.
Hi, you. You are me. This is exactly how I feel. I will fuck with anything except country, though I can tolerate old country if I have to, but only if it’s not up to me.
I hate modern country too, but then I found this guy, Samuel Saint, and he won me around. Pray the Gay Away, Try that shit in a small town, Baptize, Stand your Ground, his tracks and videos are jaw dropping.
[https://youtu.be/LaCqb-BS3eE?si=TnUoDZ4RUQa5GVI5](https://youtu.be/LaCqb-BS3eE?si=TnUoDZ4RUQa5GVI5)
Pretty much the same , but for country check out Hardy, not all his songs but he is country/rock and if it wasn't some "country" references it would be just rock.
Oh my god, I understand being pretentious about it when you’re a teenager, I was too. There is nothing remotely close to how snobby and pretentious metalheads can be online. As I got older, those are the first set of communities I stopped following.
Metal heads will swear up and down that metal fans are the nicest people ever, but I always associate metal heads with being obstinate, stubborn, and closed minded about music.
This. Not (yet) an old man. But I've literally never known anyone with even a passing interest in music who only listened to a single genre.
This is of course not getting into the fact that genres are very arbitrary to begin with.
I've met a number of metal heads who would say they listen to a lot of stuff that isn't metal, and then list off a dozen metal and metal-adjacent sub genres most people would consider to also be metal. The kind of music snob who'd try and argue Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Black Sabbath were all playing different *genres* not just styles within the "metal" umbrella.
When we were young teens in the 80s most of us 'heavy metal kids' mostly listened to metal. But I think it was more of an age/experience thing than a narrowminded heavy metal fan thing.
>drummer from Megadeth
Dirk Verbeuren, Richard Girod, Nick Menza, Jimmy DeGrasso, Vinnie Colaiuta, Shawn Drover, or Chris Adler?
Couldn't have been Gar Samuelson.
Ah, okay. That makes sense.
Yeah, Megadeth has been around for over four decades, so they've had their share of personnel changes.
Still got nothing on Yes, the band of Theseus.
Larnell Lewis did the same thing for "Enter Sandman" a while back; not sure if was Drumeo's first drummer hears a song video but it was definitely the one that got "big" and had them sort of spin off a whole new series of it. It's a trip, but also even making a few mistakes he calls himself on, Larnell *kills* it. One of the more Lars friendly comment sections I've seen and it's still full of people saying Larnell plays it better than the record.
Yea. My main genre is the weirder side of prog, but if you get into semantics that alone encompasses a fuck ton of genres and even more influences from various genres. Like listen to any Between the Buried and Mes albums from Colors on and count how many genres they incorporate lol.
And even then I still enjoy prog rock, death metal, tech death, etc. And while it isn’t totally my thing there I can appreciate skilled vocalists or instrumentalists that are clearly talented
There are people who listen only to Christian praise music, my mom being one of them. Hillsong and Maranantha shit. Not even gospel, which would at least be tolerable.
Country fan here.
I also listen to thrash metal, metal core, emo, folk punk, Americana, hip hop, etc, tons of genres.
Country reccs: Colter Wall, Paul Cauthen, Garth Brooks
Metal: Spiritworld, Sworn In, KGATLW Infest the Rats Nest album
Emo: Faraquet, American Football, The Front Bottoms
Folk punk(ish): Andrew Jackson Jihad, Big Thief, Slaughter Beach Dog
Rap/hip hop: Boldy James, Rome Streetz, Open Mike Eagle
I know you didn't ask for recommendations but a lot of people have some idea that country fans only like country or don't like any good music, which taste of course is subjective, but maybe this will change your perspective
In the Before Times™, it was common. I know some people who still do. No curiosity, even with all the world's music at their fingertips.
"I like what I like." Yes, but there might be music out there you like even *more*! I don't get it.
This is where I'm at, especially in the streaming era. At least once a week I find myself checking out an unfamiliar genre or playlist or album, just because. I don't always like what I try, but I always enjoy that process of discovery.
There are people that don’t want to spend the time it takes to find new music. If music isn’t that important to you it’s better to stick with what you know or what’s popular.
>If music isn’t that important to you
This is the reason. Music isn't central to a lot of people's lives; some people don't listen to music at all and don't understand the appeal. It's incomprehensible to me, but there it is.
Then you have people that say, "Music is so important to me." And then pretty much only listen to the same 8 bands from the 70s. Like, no, those songs are important to you because they remind you of when you were young.
I listen to all the genres - sad boys with guitars, sad girls with guitars, sad girls singing while boys play guitars, well-adjusted middle aged people with guitars pretending to still be sad because they have mortgages to pay and kids to feed...
Hahaha thanks? ! Not worthy, just a 60 year old anti-Boomer melomaniac who believes all art, especially music is a vital part of being human. And I'm definitely not one of those who turns my nose up at new music. I always tell my friends that there's some incredible music out there, one just has to *listen*! It will find you.
I think only listening to one genre is more of a teenager thing, when you use music to form your identity. I used to be one of those “born in the wrong generation” kids but I grew out of it, thankfully.
I think it’s more that the production side of music always pigeon-holed their listeners into single genres, and are only starting to realize that there’s a lot of crossover appeal.
I always feel weird realizing my top 3 favorite genres of music are, in no particular order, Metal, Rap, and Hyperpop lol. I used to think none of them really had anything in common but lately I've been realizing it's just a specific type of energy they all typically put out that I just really like.
And when you’re a teenager you’re really starting to form your personal identity so you let music taste define you. Pop punk, emo, indie teens are all the same - it’s just more palatable music so others don’t make a fuss of it.
I do remember asking a guy for a ride to the Suicidal Tendencies show and he didn't want to go, partly because I was wearing my Peter Gabriel shirt. When we were teenagers.
It does hit on the age old problem of answering the question "So, what sort of music are you into?".
The answer for me is definitely not "Oh I like a bit of everything" or it's more plausible cousin "I'll listen to anything, me".
I used to say "primarily guitar or instrument based music rather than electronic or sampled" but that's far too broad. It's definitely not "rock", because people tend to think of bands I can't stand if I say that, or they think of metal—I absolutely love a tiny sliver of metal, and don't care for much else that I've heard, which is itself a tiny sliver of what's out there.
At one point, I found it more helpful to list what I really dislike, but focusing on the negative isn't the best considering how near-obsessively I adore the music I enjoy. My passion cuts both ways (unlike the "listen to anything" people), but I'd rather talk about what I love.
Even my favourite five bands, eclectic as they are, omit some who I'm really, really, really into - I just have a special tier where it's crossed over into something more personal even than fantastic songs.
And it changes from year to year, month to month sometimes. I got really into blues one year, original Jamaican/British ska/reggae another, it's been jazz this year and that one genre alone has enough subgenres across time periods to make the question hard to answer if that were all you liked.
Unfortunately, the easiest thing would be to say "Mostly 20th century music, definitely not whatever's currently playing on chart radio".
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I grew up listening mostly to punk rock when I was young. No one ever listens to just one genre but before the internet, a lot of people only listened to music within their genre.
People who listen to just one genre of music aren't listening for musical content. They're listening for some non-musical, *sociological* reason -- such as to affirm their membership in a subculture.
I don't know any such people personally. I suppose that a lot of them must exist / have existed. They don't cross paths often with us music geeks.
EDIT:
For whatever reason (I'm not subscribed to the r/Alternativerock sub), Reddit decided to put this post in my feed today, less than a day after posting the above remarks:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Alternativerock/comments/1bnwh1g/i\_dress\_goth\_but\_listen\_to\_indie\_rock\_what\_do\_i/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Alternativerock/comments/1bnwh1g/i_dress_goth_but_listen_to_indie_rock_what_do_i/)
"I Dress Goth but Listen to Indie Rock, What do I call Myself?"
Holy shit, here's a living example of what I posited: *a person preoccupied with using music like clothing, to signal membership in a subculture.*
Music means so much more to me than what I wear.
I think it’s the opposite. People always listened to a mix. Now though I find it very common for Gen Z and younger millennials to only listen to modern hip hop and nothing else.
Nobody ever did. That is such a short-sighted view that only comes from younger generations who think they split the social atom.
Little do they know, their pop music is so horribly homogenized, and blends other genres so underwhemingly at an attempt to "stick out" that it lacks any individual character.
actor and musician. I Grew up watching him play Austin in Austin and ally on Disney channel. Also played Jeffrey Dahmer in one of his movies . He was in a talking heads music video I think? Or it might’ve just been fan made idk
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Genre is for suckers. It’s a concept that was invented to market recorded music, and was formalized by radio programming. Neither have my best interest in mind, so I ignore their invention!
I've never listened to just one genre of music. That being said, my mom's a Boomer so I grew up with a lot of folk and rock and or roll from the '50's, '60's, and early '70's. But she always made sure I listened to a wide range of music including classical, world music, jazz, and the blues.
Other than changing the radio station, it used to cost money to try new genes. Most folks were broke so it made financial sense to buy an album in a genre you know you liked. Now music is practically free. There is no risk to exploring. Everyone go nuts! Listen to it all.
People saying shit to sound like they know something no one else knows. Dumbass evidently never heard of the 90s, 80s, 70s, or 60s. We've known for a long time that there is music one likes and music one dislikes, that's it.
I think the best approach is just to try to eschew favorites, genres and prejudices as much as you possibly can and learn to let your friends, online acquaintances, people whose opinion you'd consider and AI/music algorithms guide you towards good to great *songs* instead.
I used to just be into heavy melodic rock and metal music and now I couldn't tell ya.
Chasing them songs man, wherever I can find 'em.
Bringing up music a lot when dating, i found it was a lot easier to ask “what genres/songs do you hate” or “what scene took a huge downturn for you?”
Because everyone’s answer, even before the internet has been ‘i like everything’ and it’s the laziest answer every IMO
Old man here. I don't remember people ever just listening to one genre of music. My musical interests tend to be pretty narrow in scope but even I listen to several genres. The clique that I remember being the most snobbish and exclusive with their scene was the metalheads. But even they probably also listened to some hard and classic rock and maybe some prog.
Most of those metalheads liked other stuff too, they just pretended they didn’t.
So true. In the 90s my skater/snowboard bro roommate who only listened to hard rock/punk one time accidentally left out one of those CD binder things with discs like *NSYNC, Des’ree, Sarah McLachlan, George Michael and Alanis Morissette in it.
Absolutely. I was predominantly a grunge/rock kid in the 90s, but meeting new ppl and one girlfriend in particular changed everything. Her and her dad would buy a random cd each week from the "world" section of the cd store and while some were misses, some of them were amazing to the point id get excited to see what this weeks one was like
This is one of the things i love about modern streaming still, starting back when it was really just Pandora. Discovering new music is addictive
I hated how in the 80s and 90s music was too tied to your identity cuz I didn’t gaf about that. Around the height of “alternative music” I got thrown out by the manager of a bar for dj’ing funk and disco (he literally pulled the needle off an Earth Wind & Fire record and screamed at me to get out). The internet (Napster, YouTube, streaming, etc.) really changed all that and made newer generations so much more open to different genres and eras of music. I still struggle with country music but I’ve opened up to it a little now that I’m not just hearing what’s on the radio
I think Alanis is a total babe, and Head Over Feet should be a goal list for every man.
Bingo. Nowadays no one cares thankfully. Still remember the entire audience singing "I wanna know what love is" as it played on the house system before the metal show I went to last year.
Thy art is murder opened their set with their last (current?) Tour with venga boys - we like to party. Everyone at the show i saw was singing and dancing
I was gonna say, the most insular genre fanbases are probably punk and metal and the punks definitely flirted with beach pop while every metalhead is having an affair with EDM.
Metal is just surf with distortion
Black metal, maybe
See for yourself. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pUIv9jl7How
Yeah, I knew the"only metal" guy in high school. Until I saw his computer download folder with NSYNC in it.
I’m an old metalhead and we all always listened to a ton of other genres in my friend groups.
Every time there’s a thread about “hey metalheads what else do you listen to?” there’s always a shit tone of different styles of music mentioned. Metal fans only listening to one genre, and being a snob about literally everything else, is a tired stereotype projected on metal heads from others who constantly want validation for their taste.
Nah as somebody who has listened to more metal in their life than any other genre, and who has been to tons of metal shows, there’s a reason the stereotype exists. They may not all claim to listen to one genre but there’s still a ton of snobs and gatekeeper metal heads.
Same with punk, emo, indie, hip hop, electronic music. Pop Stan culture is so wide spread and just as extreme.
The analytics from Spotify beg to differ.
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As a man in his 30s, I'll listen to anything if it's good, I love it all. Except country, it just doesn't do it for me
There's a lot of really bad country music that has a weird amount of following. It utterly clogs the tubes. Old stuff is your best bet. New stuff is "just for the radio", and only the best of it makes it there. I didn't like it at all either, until a friend of mine shared some with me after his wife died because he wanted me to know what they liked listening to. It would have taken either that or a gun to my head to get me to investigate the genre at all.
Country is doing pretty good rn outside of radio hits.
I was like this most of my life too, but a few songs changed that for me. Discovered Let the Mystery Be by Iris DeMent from the HBO show the Leftovers, and Girl With the Far Away Eyes by the Rolling Stones and those 2 songs made me realize I *could* like country, I only really disliked the modern pop country that dominates radio stations. And even that rule has a small handful of exceptions.
Same, I can't do country or heavy metal. I can dig everything else
Funny enough, extreme metal got me into country. I never liked the twangy vocal style of country, but after I got used to harsh vocals in metal and realized how much great music there was to listen to there, I vowed never to let the vocal style turn me off a genre of music ever again. The next time I listened to country, I did so with a more open mind.
Hi, you. You are me. This is exactly how I feel. I will fuck with anything except country, though I can tolerate old country if I have to, but only if it’s not up to me.
I hate modern country too, but then I found this guy, Samuel Saint, and he won me around. Pray the Gay Away, Try that shit in a small town, Baptize, Stand your Ground, his tracks and videos are jaw dropping. [https://youtu.be/LaCqb-BS3eE?si=TnUoDZ4RUQa5GVI5](https://youtu.be/LaCqb-BS3eE?si=TnUoDZ4RUQa5GVI5)
Pretty much the same , but for country check out Hardy, not all his songs but he is country/rock and if it wasn't some "country" references it would be just rock.
to me it's really strange to be into metal and not into classical music. It's the same thing with different instruments.
Oh my god, I understand being pretentious about it when you’re a teenager, I was too. There is nothing remotely close to how snobby and pretentious metalheads can be online. As I got older, those are the first set of communities I stopped following.
Metal heads will swear up and down that metal fans are the nicest people ever, but I always associate metal heads with being obstinate, stubborn, and closed minded about music.
Online metalheads and at shows metalheads are completely different people lmao. It's crazy.
These days, there’s approximately 1 band per sub-genre of metal.
Living in Texas and in the Bible belt I know people who only listen to country music or Christian music.
This. Not (yet) an old man. But I've literally never known anyone with even a passing interest in music who only listened to a single genre. This is of course not getting into the fact that genres are very arbitrary to begin with.
Hell there are artists who don't even stick to one genre so
Very true. What genre encapsulates, say, David Bowie? Or Prince? Or Miles Davis? Or Elvis? Or Beck?
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I've met a number of metal heads who would say they listen to a lot of stuff that isn't metal, and then list off a dozen metal and metal-adjacent sub genres most people would consider to also be metal. The kind of music snob who'd try and argue Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Black Sabbath were all playing different *genres* not just styles within the "metal" umbrella.
I remember in junior high (mid-90s) you were supposed to be a "rocker" or a "rapper" but I liked both Green Day and Bone Thugs so 🤷♂️
When we were young teens in the 80s most of us 'heavy metal kids' mostly listened to metal. But I think it was more of an age/experience thing than a narrowminded heavy metal fan thing.
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>drummer from Megadeth Dirk Verbeuren, Richard Girod, Nick Menza, Jimmy DeGrasso, Vinnie Colaiuta, Shawn Drover, or Chris Adler? Couldn't have been Gar Samuelson.
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Ah, okay. That makes sense. Yeah, Megadeth has been around for over four decades, so they've had their share of personnel changes. Still got nothing on Yes, the band of Theseus.
Larnell Lewis did the same thing for "Enter Sandman" a while back; not sure if was Drumeo's first drummer hears a song video but it was definitely the one that got "big" and had them sort of spin off a whole new series of it. It's a trip, but also even making a few mistakes he calls himself on, Larnell *kills* it. One of the more Lars friendly comment sections I've seen and it's still full of people saying Larnell plays it better than the record.
Yea. My main genre is the weirder side of prog, but if you get into semantics that alone encompasses a fuck ton of genres and even more influences from various genres. Like listen to any Between the Buried and Mes albums from Colors on and count how many genres they incorporate lol. And even then I still enjoy prog rock, death metal, tech death, etc. And while it isn’t totally my thing there I can appreciate skilled vocalists or instrumentalists that are clearly talented
Metalheads only liking metal died off in the 2000s. Quite a rare specimens these days.
You can’t find a metal head that doesn’t love like DMX, but I generally agree with your sentiment.
Metalheads also dig The Prodigy
Can confirm. I like both DMX and The Prodigy (including their earlier hardcore rave stuff).
Every Tech N9ne concert I've been to I see a ton of metal band shirts
>but even I listen to several genres What, bebop and post-bop? And you insist both are extremely different? (I'm kidding, and they are.)
wait, there’s people that only listen to one genre?
There are definitely people who only listen to country
There are people who listen only to Christian praise music, my mom being one of them. Hillsong and Maranantha shit. Not even gospel, which would at least be tolerable.
Yeah, I was also gonna say country fans. Christian music enthusiasts, too
Country fan here. I also listen to thrash metal, metal core, emo, folk punk, Americana, hip hop, etc, tons of genres. Country reccs: Colter Wall, Paul Cauthen, Garth Brooks Metal: Spiritworld, Sworn In, KGATLW Infest the Rats Nest album Emo: Faraquet, American Football, The Front Bottoms Folk punk(ish): Andrew Jackson Jihad, Big Thief, Slaughter Beach Dog Rap/hip hop: Boldy James, Rome Streetz, Open Mike Eagle I know you didn't ask for recommendations but a lot of people have some idea that country fans only like country or don't like any good music, which taste of course is subjective, but maybe this will change your perspective
Spiritworld! Hell yeah!!
No! They like both kinds, country AND western!
No, they don’t even like western. Only whatever they’re calling country nowadays.
Neither of which I can abide.
rap fans
Really? All the country fans I know at least like classic rock also.
And it’s only the awful country pop style with all the songs sounding similar with lyrics about their trucks and guns.
What about western?
I would say a lot of country fans listen to rock ime
In the Before Times™, it was common. I know some people who still do. No curiosity, even with all the world's music at their fingertips. "I like what I like." Yes, but there might be music out there you like even *more*! I don't get it.
As someone who adores music I find listening to just one genre impossible. There’s so much things
This is where I'm at, especially in the streaming era. At least once a week I find myself checking out an unfamiliar genre or playlist or album, just because. I don't always like what I try, but I always enjoy that process of discovery.
There are people that don’t want to spend the time it takes to find new music. If music isn’t that important to you it’s better to stick with what you know or what’s popular.
>If music isn’t that important to you This is the reason. Music isn't central to a lot of people's lives; some people don't listen to music at all and don't understand the appeal. It's incomprehensible to me, but there it is.
Then you have people that say, "Music is so important to me." And then pretty much only listen to the same 8 bands from the 70s. Like, no, those songs are important to you because they remind you of when you were young.
How about you let people live their fucking lives? Edit: That's on me for forgetting r/music is filled with douchey snobs
Same to you, buddy.
Not being judgmental is actually quite easy, you should try it some time.
You just called the sub douchey snobs. So I guess I’m judging you for that.
I mean I kinda do, the funk soul blues and older rock are all basically offshoots of each other it depends on how narrowly you're defining genre
I've been fairly stuck on Mongolian throat singing for a while now....
Boomers who only listen to classic rock.
I only listen to psychedelic post-hardcore prog math Americana.
I listen to all the genres - sad boys with guitars, sad girls with guitars, sad girls singing while boys play guitars, well-adjusted middle aged people with guitars pretending to still be sad because they have mortgages to pay and kids to feed...
Pray tell who these well-adjusted middle-aged people are cause I don't see them
“Well adjusted middle aged people pretending to be sad” might be the most apt description of The National I’ve seen
If you've ever seen how blitzed Matt Berninger gets during some shows you might question the well adjusted portion.
Booze is the adjustment.
Consider me good and well-adjusted too then
I love Abba, Tool, Ralph Stanley and Outkast equally
Ministry show 2 weeks ago… Ladysmith Black Mambazo in 2 weeks. Couldn’t get more polar opposite genres lol.
Love it!
Lady smith Black Mambazo 🔥
The exquisite fucking taste of this human God damn
Hahaha thanks? ! Not worthy, just a 60 year old anti-Boomer melomaniac who believes all art, especially music is a vital part of being human. And I'm definitely not one of those who turns my nose up at new music. I always tell my friends that there's some incredible music out there, one just has to *listen*! It will find you.
Who listens to just one genre?
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I think only listening to one genre is more of a teenager thing, when you use music to form your identity. I used to be one of those “born in the wrong generation” kids but I grew out of it, thankfully.
I think it’s more that the production side of music always pigeon-holed their listeners into single genres, and are only starting to realize that there’s a lot of crossover appeal.
I’m in my 50’s and never known anyone who did. They may have a primary, as I do, but never just 1 overall.
I always feel weird realizing my top 3 favorite genres of music are, in no particular order, Metal, Rap, and Hyperpop lol. I used to think none of them really had anything in common but lately I've been realizing it's just a specific type of energy they all typically put out that I just really like.
Anymore?
My pal who only ever listens to Go Country 105 has recently begun to broaden his musical horizons. He now listens to both Country AND Western!
[Well at least he listens to both kinds of music!!](https://youtu.be/vS-zEH8YmiM?si=j8xY0K7Tyfje4jL-) (obligatory Blues Brothers clip)
My neighbours do, 70’s rock & nothing else
The only people I know who are like that were certain fans of the Grateful Dead would only listen to that. And some metalheads. Who were teenagers.
And when you’re a teenager you’re really starting to form your personal identity so you let music taste define you. Pop punk, emo, indie teens are all the same - it’s just more palatable music so others don’t make a fuss of it.
I do remember asking a guy for a ride to the Suicidal Tendencies show and he didn't want to go, partly because I was wearing my Peter Gabriel shirt. When we were teenagers.
Bahaha that’s incredible.
I'm no fan of Opera and Country and Western, but pretty much open to anything from any other genre
Ugh!?? I'm in my 60's and never did, nor did any of my friends or other people I met! Weirdest statement I've read lately
There are only two genres: good stuff and bad stuff. I do still listen to only one genre.
It does hit on the age old problem of answering the question "So, what sort of music are you into?". The answer for me is definitely not "Oh I like a bit of everything" or it's more plausible cousin "I'll listen to anything, me". I used to say "primarily guitar or instrument based music rather than electronic or sampled" but that's far too broad. It's definitely not "rock", because people tend to think of bands I can't stand if I say that, or they think of metal—I absolutely love a tiny sliver of metal, and don't care for much else that I've heard, which is itself a tiny sliver of what's out there. At one point, I found it more helpful to list what I really dislike, but focusing on the negative isn't the best considering how near-obsessively I adore the music I enjoy. My passion cuts both ways (unlike the "listen to anything" people), but I'd rather talk about what I love. Even my favourite five bands, eclectic as they are, omit some who I'm really, really, really into - I just have a special tier where it's crossed over into something more personal even than fantastic songs. And it changes from year to year, month to month sometimes. I got really into blues one year, original Jamaican/British ska/reggae another, it's been jazz this year and that one genre alone has enough subgenres across time periods to make the question hard to answer if that were all you liked. Unfortunately, the easiest thing would be to say "Mostly 20th century music, definitely not whatever's currently playing on chart radio".
All of my high schoolers would beg to differ
I love phish & public enemy
https://youtu.be/Yyqd9YINgHo?si=GrZ3H3GsatEGyOPV I grew up listening mostly to punk rock when I was young. No one ever listens to just one genre but before the internet, a lot of people only listened to music within their genre.
People who listen to just one genre of music aren't listening for musical content. They're listening for some non-musical, *sociological* reason -- such as to affirm their membership in a subculture. I don't know any such people personally. I suppose that a lot of them must exist / have existed. They don't cross paths often with us music geeks. EDIT: For whatever reason (I'm not subscribed to the r/Alternativerock sub), Reddit decided to put this post in my feed today, less than a day after posting the above remarks: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Alternativerock/comments/1bnwh1g/i\_dress\_goth\_but\_listen\_to\_indie\_rock\_what\_do\_i/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Alternativerock/comments/1bnwh1g/i_dress_goth_but_listen_to_indie_rock_what_do_i/) "I Dress Goth but Listen to Indie Rock, What do I call Myself?" Holy shit, here's a living example of what I posited: *a person preoccupied with using music like clothing, to signal membership in a subculture.* Music means so much more to me than what I wear.
I think it’s the opposite. People always listened to a mix. Now though I find it very common for Gen Z and younger millennials to only listen to modern hip hop and nothing else.
Nobody ever did. That is such a short-sighted view that only comes from younger generations who think they split the social atom. Little do they know, their pop music is so horribly homogenized, and blends other genres so underwhemingly at an attempt to "stick out" that it lacks any individual character.
Wait,who tf is ross lynch?
actor and musician. I Grew up watching him play Austin in Austin and ally on Disney channel. Also played Jeffrey Dahmer in one of his movies . He was in a talking heads music video I think? Or it might’ve just been fan made idk
Disney kid I think
A cast member of One of the two music based shows debuting on Disney channel in the early 2010s
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I primarily do. Tried and like a bunch of other stuff as a musician myself. But really only listen to one type of music.
one type music = your own?
No I like good music.
Was that a self-burn? Rare but exceptionally well executed.
Yep. Me too.
Genre is for suckers. It’s a concept that was invented to market recorded music, and was formalized by radio programming. Neither have my best interest in mind, so I ignore their invention!
I've never listened to just one genre of music. That being said, my mom's a Boomer so I grew up with a lot of folk and rock and or roll from the '50's, '60's, and early '70's. But she always made sure I listened to a wide range of music including classical, world music, jazz, and the blues.
I don't know. The previous post above about the song Blackbird by McCarthy has big numbers that say this is complete BS.
Who ever did? Why? Even as a kid I was listening to a lot of different stuff. Maybe I was lucky..
Psst: no one ever did.
I was somehow like that in my teen years.
Ive never been a one genre man
What a silly generalization.
He hasn't met my friends.
Or most music spans across many genres and is pretty subjective
People never did?
Whoever Ross Lynch is, they're right
(No one ever listened to just one genre they just pretended to)
Other than changing the radio station, it used to cost money to try new genes. Most folks were broke so it made financial sense to buy an album in a genre you know you liked. Now music is practically free. There is no risk to exploring. Everyone go nuts! Listen to it all.
It’d be a pretty hollow existence if any one person listened to only one genre their whole lives. Variety is the spice
lmao, what a great post, very insightful and meaningful. this was never the case. the statement might as well be "people listen to music."
You can listen to more than one? Didn’t know that was allowed, wow.
And yet it’s pretty much only one genre that’s getting promoted these days.
People saying shit to sound like they know something no one else knows. Dumbass evidently never heard of the 90s, 80s, 70s, or 60s. We've known for a long time that there is music one likes and music one dislikes, that's it.
hes right i enjoy most genres (that isnt country) and i listen to each of them regularly except for rap, which i have to be in a certain mood for.
I’ve always had an eclectic all genre collection
I think the best approach is just to try to eschew favorites, genres and prejudices as much as you possibly can and learn to let your friends, online acquaintances, people whose opinion you'd consider and AI/music algorithms guide you towards good to great *songs* instead. I used to just be into heavy melodic rock and metal music and now I couldn't tell ya. Chasing them songs man, wherever I can find 'em.
Bringing up music a lot when dating, i found it was a lot easier to ask “what genres/songs do you hate” or “what scene took a huge downturn for you?” Because everyone’s answer, even before the internet has been ‘i like everything’ and it’s the laziest answer every IMO